:01:03. > :01:45.Before this afternoon and against the world's best distance runners.
:01:46. > :01:51.The daffodils may be in bloom but the sun certainly is not in Cardiff
:01:52. > :01:56.and through the rest of the UK, I think, this weekend. It is blustery,
:01:57. > :02:00.windy, and just about starting to rain, lots of Cagle is being worn
:02:01. > :02:07.back there. The first race will be the elite women's half marathon. Mo
:02:08. > :02:10.Farah goes in the men's race, the masses at 2:10pm. Looking forward to
:02:11. > :02:14.that. But the women's race is where we will see one or two of the new
:02:15. > :02:20.Kenyan names, we expect them to dominate, they took the last five --
:02:21. > :02:25.the first five places the last time this was contested. All teams have a
:02:26. > :02:29.maximum of five members taking part, Australia with quite a strong team.
:02:30. > :02:37.As ever, the strength of Ethiopia and Kenya will dictate. You wonder
:02:38. > :02:41.how well Great Britain can do, led by Alyson Dixon, who will run in the
:02:42. > :02:47.London Marathon, hoping to secure her place in Rio. You can see all of
:02:48. > :02:51.the rest of the teams taking part. Big turnout in the world
:02:52. > :02:56.Championships in Cardiff, only once has there been more athletes taking
:02:57. > :03:00.part than on this occasion. Held every two years now, it used to be
:03:01. > :03:04.every year but now just every two years. I'm not sure many of them
:03:05. > :03:07.would have been thinking of coming to Cardiff at the end of March and
:03:08. > :03:12.being faced with the weather we have today! Joining me in the commentary
:03:13. > :03:16.box, Paula Radcliffe. You know Cardiff very well, we are looking
:03:17. > :03:20.forward to what we hope will be a great afternoon's racing.
:03:21. > :03:25.Absolutely, I was there yesterday running through this area, through
:03:26. > :03:29.the start area, a beautiful sunny day and the athletes would have
:03:30. > :03:33.loved to have seen that they switched with today! But it is the
:03:34. > :03:36.same conditions for all of the athletes, and, if anything,
:03:37. > :03:40.conditions that the British and European athletes are accustomed to
:03:41. > :03:45.coping with, and just about doing your best on the day. Well, the
:03:46. > :03:49.weather will not dampen the enthusiasm of the city and those who
:03:50. > :03:53.will come out and watch on the streets, expecting tens of thousands
:03:54. > :03:59.of people to watch. Around 16,000 will take part in the mass race with
:04:00. > :04:04.Mo Farah later but we will concentrate on the women, one of the
:04:05. > :04:17.favourites, were Sarah. -- Mary Wacera. Japan have a strong team,
:04:18. > :04:23.and Cynthia Limo, who has been running very quickly recently, the
:04:24. > :04:29.personal-best set early in the year, 66.0 four. Five of the world's top
:04:30. > :04:33.women in 2016 are in this race, so very much looking forward to what
:04:34. > :04:38.can happen. Alyson Dixon looking chilly, but she should not be, she
:04:39. > :04:41.is from Sunderland! She has been in good form, ran well in Berlin, got
:04:42. > :04:48.an Olympic qualifying there, not yet selected. Charlotte Purdue is in the
:04:49. > :04:54.race, two or three others. We will go through the British team shortly
:04:55. > :04:58.when we get under way and talk a bit about not only the British athletes
:04:59. > :05:01.but others who will be hoping this race can help them get towards
:05:02. > :05:11.selection for Rio. The they go, then. The elite women under way, the
:05:12. > :05:15.world half of the in Cardiff, tough conditions, a tough race, a flat and
:05:16. > :05:18.fast course, had it not been as blustery today we could have seen
:05:19. > :05:22.some quick times, but it will be interesting to see what tactics are
:05:23. > :05:26.employed by the best runners. I think we would have seen them
:05:27. > :05:30.heading out fast and hard from the beginning, but you may have to hold
:05:31. > :05:34.back a little bit, just be careful when they head around Cardiff Bay,
:05:35. > :05:38.expecting it to be blustery out there, perhaps they will get the
:05:39. > :05:43.full face of the wind. Just after half way they will turn back and
:05:44. > :05:47.head towards this area, right in front of Cardiff Castle, if you know
:05:48. > :05:53.Cardiff well, a beautiful backdrop. The city, as I said, delighted to be
:05:54. > :06:00.hosting this event, and it is a good habit, we have had so many events,
:06:01. > :06:03.in the next year or two the world Championships in London, the world
:06:04. > :06:07.indoors coming to Birmingham, perhaps the European indoors to
:06:08. > :06:08.Birmingham, so Cardiff playing its part in bringing big
:06:09. > :06:16.Birmingham, so Cardiff playing its to the UK. It is great to see.
:06:17. > :06:19.Seeing athletes compete in our country on home soil and all of the
:06:20. > :06:23.benefits it brought, including the home support and the excellent
:06:24. > :06:26.organisation, and when you watch events like this it makes you proud
:06:27. > :06:30.to be British when you see how well the event is put on, how well the
:06:31. > :06:35.athletes are welcomed. Despite the weather, they are happy to be racing
:06:36. > :06:40.in Cardiff and there was lots of support along the streets. You will
:06:41. > :06:43.race in the world Championships whatever the weather, but it begs a
:06:44. > :06:48.difference to the crowds that will come out and support, but hopefully
:06:49. > :06:53.the people of Cardiff will turn out en masse and get behind the runners.
:06:54. > :06:57.The mass runners are going later on as well, 16,000 plus running there,
:06:58. > :07:01.so lots of family and friends will be supporting them out on the street
:07:02. > :07:05.as well. And supporting Mo Farah, of course. He will probably be well
:07:06. > :07:08.as well. And supporting Mo Farah, of into his warm up now, maybe longer
:07:09. > :07:11.warm up than he might have been expecting!
:07:12. > :07:18.warm up than he might have been was saying, with the leading men off
:07:19. > :07:21.at 2:10pm. For now, we will concentrate on this, we can look at
:07:22. > :07:26.where they are going to head to, away from the castle, down through
:07:27. > :07:33.Grangetown into Penarth, down by the marina about three miles, then
:07:34. > :07:38.around Cardiff Bay, past the millennium Centre, this is where the
:07:39. > :07:43.imported part of the race is, back with the wind on their backs,
:07:44. > :07:48.heading up toward Roath Park Lake with three miles to go at the break
:07:49. > :07:55.will be attempted, then they will finish back at the Civic Centre, not
:07:56. > :08:00.far from City Hall. As I said, flat, fast, one or two twisty, turning
:08:01. > :08:03.parts, but no reason why people, if they judge this right, just don't
:08:04. > :08:07.overcook it into the difficult conditions in the early stages,
:08:08. > :08:13.people can still end up with a pretty swift time. Let's talk about
:08:14. > :08:19.the British contingent. I can see Alyson Dixon very close in the lead
:08:20. > :08:24.group there, her only race in 2016 was up in the north, where my family
:08:25. > :08:29.come from, but she is in good form and looking towards London. She is
:08:30. > :08:35.joined by Rachel Felton and Tina Moore coming Jenny Steel having
:08:36. > :08:42.pulled out earlier in the week, and Jenny Spink. There has been some
:08:43. > :08:46.controversy around the selections, Alyson Dixon picked on form but also
:08:47. > :08:51.on preparation, trying to help her get ready for the London Marathon.
:08:52. > :08:51.Susan Partridge maybe not quite afforded
:08:52. > :08:56.Susan Partridge maybe not quite probably should have
:08:57. > :08:59.Susan Partridge maybe not quite Steel pulled out in the week that
:09:00. > :09:04.Susan was not given the chance to step in and raised here,
:09:05. > :09:14.Susan was not given the chance to on that for later in the year when
:09:15. > :09:17.they get ready for the 10,000 metres on the track over the London
:09:18. > :09:19.Marathon, to try to get the qualifying spots for Rio. Alyson
:09:20. > :09:22.Dixon, Sonia Samuels ran very well particularly in Berlin in September,
:09:23. > :09:29.and actually not long before Alyson particularly in Berlin in September,
:09:30. > :09:33.Dixon ran the Great North Run, fairly swift a few weeks before she
:09:34. > :09:37.went to Berlin, said this will give her an indication of where she is
:09:38. > :09:40.at. I think she will go at this pretty hard, you would not come and
:09:41. > :09:46.run this race and decide to take it easy! It will be interesting to see
:09:47. > :09:49.how she goes. I can see and Eloise Wellings of Australia in the middle
:09:50. > :09:55.of the group there, with the blonde hair tied back. Outside of the
:09:56. > :09:59.Ethiopian and Kenya contingents, difficult to see anybody else
:10:00. > :10:03.getting in there, particularly be Kenyon is, I'm not even sure the
:10:04. > :10:08.Ethiopian team here is a strong as we have seen in recent years.
:10:09. > :10:16.Absolutely, the strength in depth comes from the canyons, evidenced by
:10:17. > :10:22.the fact that on the 2016 so -- list so far they fell eight of the first
:10:23. > :10:29.ten places, including Limo, who is racing here today, backed up by Mary
:10:30. > :10:42.Wacera, Gladys Cherono. They have fielded a very, very strong team.
:10:43. > :10:49.They are challenging now, from the middle of the pack. Three to count
:10:50. > :10:56.for your team, and it is the cumulative time that determines
:10:57. > :11:00.where the medals go. The Japanese team well to the fore. The women
:11:01. > :11:03.have always done very well but the men are tipped to do well in these
:11:04. > :11:11.championships, maybe more so than the women. Already, gaps starting to
:11:12. > :11:15.appear, suggesting the early pace is not too slow at all. To be fair, a
:11:16. > :11:22.big group there, it will be five K before we get a split which will let
:11:23. > :11:26.us know what pace they are running. This is a world Championships, so
:11:27. > :11:31.even though it is in the UK and we usually talk about Miles, etc, there
:11:32. > :11:35.are mile markers out there, we will watch out for them, but for the
:11:36. > :11:40.purposes of an international road running event, it is the calamitous
:11:41. > :11:47.split which will be the ones that we will see on screen. Out on the
:11:48. > :11:56.course there probably will be mile markers to give the athletes the
:11:57. > :12:06.feedback, but predominantly it will be the 5k splits that we are looking
:12:07. > :12:10.out for. You can see how flat the cause is, and it is the same that
:12:11. > :12:14.the wind is as strong as it is because the organisers put a lot of
:12:15. > :12:18.work into making sure this is a fast course as well as a good course that
:12:19. > :12:22.will show off Cardiff and the highlight of Cardiff as you move
:12:23. > :12:26.around it. Talking to some of the runners in and around the expert
:12:27. > :12:29.yesterday, they were saying that training around Cardiff Bay it is
:12:30. > :12:32.generally quite hard to find somewhere flat but they managed to
:12:33. > :12:36.do that predominantly throughout this race. There is an incline at
:12:37. > :12:46.around 12 miles but otherwise a pretty flat course. And that will
:12:47. > :12:51.impact on the men's race, the tactics in particular will come into
:12:52. > :12:58.play. They know, if Mo Farah leads it towards the latter stages, he
:12:59. > :13:03.will be dangerous. This morning I described his task in this race, it
:13:04. > :13:06.is like going to their backyard, the specialists at half marathons, going
:13:07. > :13:11.to their backyard, but in his backyard, if you know what I mean
:13:12. > :13:20.ayes he is on home soil, but it is not his strongest event. You think
:13:21. > :13:26.that the Kenyan women will think, we can run away from everybody. I think
:13:27. > :13:30.that is absolutely the mindset that the Kenyan runners will have here.
:13:31. > :13:36.We might see BEP appear girls being able to go with them. I was chatting
:13:37. > :13:41.to a former world record-holder over the marathon distance for women, who
:13:42. > :13:45.is now team manager for the Kenyan team here, and her pics were between
:13:46. > :13:49.Mary Wacera and Cynthia Limo, she said they are the two front runners
:13:50. > :13:54.in her team and she expects them to comfortably run away from the field,
:13:55. > :14:01.and the only affect the weather would have is on how fast they are
:14:02. > :14:07.able to run. But looking ahead to what Mo has to do, it is other
:14:08. > :14:11.athletes, the likes of Karoki, who know what they have to do, which is
:14:12. > :14:15.to break him early in the race. They cannot get within a sniff of the
:14:16. > :14:19.last mile and still allowing him to be within shooting distance because
:14:20. > :14:25.they know, time and time again, they are not able to run away from him in
:14:26. > :14:32.the closing stages. Still the early stages here, there is Alyson Dixon.
:14:33. > :14:39.Her dad, Dave, was a very good distance runner in his day for
:14:40. > :14:44.Sunderland. She is very much a fixture in the local running scene
:14:45. > :14:48.in the north-east, a very popular athlete, worked hard to get to the
:14:49. > :14:52.position she is in, with a chance of going to the Olympic Games they
:14:53. > :14:55.stay, but she knows she has to go to London, like everybody else, and
:14:56. > :14:59.produce a performance there, so looking for a confidence boosting
:15:00. > :15:05.run here. We have not seen much of the other British contingent close
:15:06. > :15:09.to the leading group, but she has gone out here with intent. She tends
:15:10. > :15:12.to run like that even in her marathons as well, she is not
:15:13. > :15:14.frightened to go out and trust herself, back herself. Does not
:15:15. > :15:27.always work out, but Absolutely not. You see that in her
:15:28. > :15:32.training. She will push on the long runs to get the pace. Sometimes it
:15:33. > :15:37.results in her getting overtired coming into events. But she looked
:15:38. > :15:43.at this event as an important stepping stone towards London it is
:15:44. > :15:50.not the primary target but a target she backed from this week and wants
:15:51. > :15:54.to use it as a hard tempo run, as a good indication before the marathons
:15:55. > :16:02.to come to get an idea of what she can do in London. How to judge it,
:16:03. > :16:09.how to pace it. I know she will use it as a practice. To see what she
:16:10. > :16:14.needs to take on. Practicing drinking the fluids, opening the
:16:15. > :16:19.gels, and eating the gels too, while moving along at race pace. That is
:16:20. > :16:32.hard to replicate in training. It is good practice for that today.
:16:33. > :16:42.We can see some of the names of the main contending teams. But Japan are
:16:43. > :16:47.also well-rep resented in that leading team there.
:16:48. > :16:55.Dessie, and many are experienced to do well here. But not so much of a
:16:56. > :16:59.form line. The Ethiopians have held a marathon a month or two back as a
:17:00. > :17:03.main selection for the race. The Kenyans are interesting. There was a
:17:04. > :17:08.bunch of more famous names that could have perhaps been in the team.
:17:09. > :17:23.But even without the big names, these are fast women running here.
:17:24. > :17:31.In the middle there is Kipkoeche. And other improving athletes.
:17:32. > :17:34.After a race that was won in Prague on the roads, they were talking
:17:35. > :17:40.about making the 10,000 track team in Rio.
:17:41. > :17:47.Some of them have not run a track race yet. There is a real mix in the
:17:48. > :17:52.half marathon with the Mo Farahs of the world and Geoffrey Kamworor, the
:17:53. > :17:54.World Cross Country championship. the world and Geoffrey Kamworor, the
:17:55. > :18:03.makes it a really intriguing the world and Geoffrey Kamworor, the
:18:04. > :18:09.There are a lot of athletes that can run and be outstanding and be top of
:18:10. > :18:12.the world-class over the half marathon distance but Dons
:18:13. > :18:19.transplant late it to the fulmar thon.
:18:20. > :18:25.Some feel more comfortable over the half marathon distance. Then
:18:26. > :18:29.dropping to do to 10,000m on the track is not so different. It is a
:18:30. > :18:36.different surface but working more along the same lines. If you look at
:18:37. > :18:40.Mo Farah, his potential over the marathon, probably isn't, going out
:18:41. > :18:45.on a limb here but no, sir at close as it would be over the half
:18:46. > :18:49.marathon. In the half marathon he is still very, very strong and tough to
:18:50. > :18:55.beat. But there are weaknesses there to go up to the marathon. That is
:18:56. > :18:56.ex-pented when he is world-class at 1500m.
:18:57. > :19:01.ex-pented when he is world-class at If you are looking forward to seeing
:19:02. > :19:05.Mo, you are now watching the women's race. If you watched the special
:19:06. > :19:08.programme before this, if you want to get in touch and give us your
:19:09. > :19:21.thoughts, do it via to get in touch and give us your
:19:22. > :19:26.approaching the 5-K point. to get in touch and give us your
:19:27. > :19:34.that the group is so big, it is not that fast. It looks decent enough.
:19:35. > :19:44.One or two are starting to drop off. They do hit the 5K and then we can
:19:45. > :19:50.see a more accurate judge of what is happening.
:19:51. > :19:53.Just by the way that the field is gradually whittling down, nobody has
:19:54. > :19:58.made a conscious surge but people are starting to drift off the back.
:19:59. > :20:03.made a conscious surge but people Incidentally, the runner about to go
:20:04. > :20:10.under the bridge in the white hat, the, Helen Taylor of the US, they
:20:11. > :20:14.have selected their team from the marathon championships five or six
:20:15. > :20:21.weeks ago. So a short turn around for them. I was chatting with Sarah
:20:22. > :20:28.Hall at the press conference, to say how easy it was to turn around. She
:20:29. > :20:34.was saying it was easier for her as she did not finish but they were
:20:35. > :20:42.happy to see the conditions out on the course today,
:20:43. > :20:44.happy to see the conditions out on race they were hot. They are happier
:20:45. > :20:46.running the longer distances in conditions like this.
:20:47. > :20:49.running the longer distances in Yes, Los Angeles was a tough trial.
:20:50. > :20:53.running the longer distances in The Americans, you go to the trials,
:20:54. > :21:06.that is it. Even in the marathon it is the top three. That is it. So,
:21:07. > :21:10.the 5K, Paula says that they are running about 520 a pace.
:21:11. > :21:13.It is not super fast but decent enough.
:21:14. > :21:18.The group here have picked up the pace in the last half a mile. From
:21:19. > :21:21.The group here have picked up the group of 235 athletes, it has now
:21:22. > :21:26.whittled down to about 12. It does look as though there is a
:21:27. > :21:31.slight incline there. It isn't significantly big but it is
:21:32. > :21:36.obviously significant in the way that they are running up it. It is
:21:37. > :21:42.big enough to cause a bit of shuffling in the second pack.
:21:43. > :21:49.Allowing this group to move away. They are 16.31 through the 5K
:21:50. > :21:53.marker. The Kenyans very much pushing in. The Ethiopians
:21:54. > :21:57.sheltering on hind. There will be more of that sheltering going on as
:21:58. > :22:00.we get into the windy sections. There on the
:22:01. > :22:04.we get into the windy sections. drinks tables set out with the flags
:22:05. > :22:10.by the countries, so that they know where table to go to in alphabet
:22:11. > :22:13.call order running down. Not so many taking advantage of that. On the
:22:14. > :22:20.tables, they are mostly bottles of water laid out. Not necessarily to
:22:21. > :22:23.take on a lot of fuel over the half marathon distance. Most of
:22:24. > :22:27.take on a lot of fuel over the half drinks bottles are for athletes who
:22:28. > :22:32.have an eye on the marathon coming up and want to practice the
:22:33. > :22:40.drinking. And in that lead group there, you
:22:41. > :22:47.can see the leading Japanese athlete, Ando. She That is a
:22:48. > :22:53.benchmark as we go through a few glitches here. There is water
:22:54. > :22:58.getting into the works! Sorry, we are not able to bring the standings
:22:59. > :23:03.at this point. But that big group, all of the Kenyan team, the
:23:04. > :23:11.Ethiopian team, three or four members of the Japanese team and
:23:12. > :23:18.Eloise Wellings. That is who she is having her eye
:23:19. > :23:27.on, some of the Kenyans and some of the Japanese team. So welliness of
:23:28. > :23:32.Australia is very much in there. And Tajeda is in that lead group as
:23:33. > :23:38.well. A very good athlete, Elloise
:23:39. > :23:42.Wellings. In good form in the championships in Beijing. Made it
:23:43. > :23:47.through to the final. She has the range. The track speed helps when
:23:48. > :24:01.you come into the half marathon. It can be a factor. You bring in good 5
:24:02. > :24:14.and 10K P Bs. That is something that Sarah Hall was mentioning.
:24:15. > :24:23.-- as Paula said, Sarah had dropped out. But now she has a chance to
:24:24. > :24:27.target events like this. Yes, and Sarah is an athlete who has
:24:28. > :24:33.recently made the step up into trying to achieve at the marathon.
:24:34. > :24:38.The half marathon is a distance she is ranked higher at and more
:24:39. > :24:47.comfortable racing over, moving from the 5,000 to 10,000m on the track.
:24:48. > :24:51.She has adopted four young Ethiopian girls in the last year or so with
:24:52. > :24:55.her husband. That has changed her preparation a little. They have been
:24:56. > :24:59.based more in one place. I don't think that the family have come over
:25:00. > :25:05.but if they are watching this, I wonder what team they are cheering
:25:06. > :25:14.for? Well, talking of team, you saw the British team in currently 10th
:25:15. > :25:19.place through the 5K. There is the Penarth area, the Pent art Marina
:25:20. > :25:28.and the landscape of Cardiff that is very much changed over the years.
:25:29. > :25:33.I'm not sure how much of the sights the athletes take in, as ever. At
:25:34. > :25:37.the tend to see the tarmac in front of them, all that they see are
:25:38. > :25:44.yellow or white lines. But some will have been out over the last few days
:25:45. > :25:50.looking at the course, trying to familiarise themselves over certain
:25:51. > :25:57.sections. If they know it is a flat course, or if there are hills they
:25:58. > :26:01.may look at that. But you may want to look at the last the latter part
:26:02. > :26:05.of the race. You might take the opportunity to
:26:06. > :26:09.jog around or walk around the course beforehand. With the half marathon,
:26:10. > :26:14.the athletes were offered a bus tour. But it was sitting cramped in
:26:15. > :26:18.the bus the day before the race for over two hours. That was one that
:26:19. > :26:21.they decided was better not to do that. They would take the
:26:22. > :26:25.opportunity since it is not on this course, too far from the hotel to
:26:26. > :26:29.make sure that they are familiar with the start portion and with the
:26:30. > :26:36.finish portion as you say of the course. A lot of them would have
:26:37. > :26:40.been going into nearby Bute Park to do the training runs to shake out
:26:41. > :26:44.before the race. They will have had the opportunity to explore the area,
:26:45. > :26:49.to ensure that they are familiar with twists and turns as they come
:26:50. > :26:54.into that. You may have seen the four mile mark
:26:55. > :26:59.being passed. About 21 minutes. Maintaining the
:27:00. > :27:02.same sort of pace. If anything a tad slower. There was a water station
:27:03. > :27:07.there. It is good to see the people out
:27:08. > :27:13.supporting them. The rain has not come out yet. It was forecast for
:27:14. > :27:16.right around 2.00pm. That is when the men's race is getting going. But
:27:17. > :27:21.some protection from the houses. When they come out into the bay,
:27:22. > :27:24.that is when they will face the worst of the windy conditions. But
:27:25. > :27:27.goodness me the water looks still there.
:27:28. > :27:33.Yes, I was looking at the trees by the side of the road as they were
:27:34. > :27:38.running along that section. That section looks sheltered. The wind
:27:39. > :27:41.does not look so bad. At the start of the race, the forecast was for
:27:42. > :27:46.the conditions to be forecasting wind.
:27:47. > :27:55.I think that the portion of this race where they will feel it the
:27:56. > :28:00.most is as they run across the Barrage to Cardiff Bay.
:28:01. > :28:03.They will try to save as much energy for that as possible, getting the
:28:04. > :28:12.head down and run into the conditions.
:28:13. > :28:16.And of course, the Barrage helps with the safe havens from the boats.
:28:17. > :28:21.If you lived there, that is where you would have your boat? I think
:28:22. > :28:27.Colin lives there. Yes, he does, our colleague, Colin
:28:28. > :28:29.Jackson. He has been part of the programme getting people involved in
:28:30. > :28:35.the event. The popularity of running right
:28:36. > :28:39.around the world and running events. It does not seem to be abating at
:28:40. > :28:53.all. I'm sure if many of you are out on a
:28:54. > :28:58.park run this morning, despite the weather you are enjoying it. It was
:28:59. > :29:03.a good day yesterday. Pity it could not have been carried through. But
:29:04. > :29:07.for a lot of athletes, your experience is one that says, look,
:29:08. > :29:12.whatever the conditions, you must come prepared. Even for the Kenyans
:29:13. > :29:16.and the Ethiopians, although we go on saying that this could be
:29:17. > :29:22.difficult, Mo is hoping that is the case. But these gays ray around the
:29:23. > :29:31.world in all sorts of conditions. One of two even racing on New Year
:29:32. > :29:35.on the roads. It was colder than. This They are not totally unfamiliar
:29:36. > :29:37.to running in conditions that are not ideal.
:29:38. > :29:42.to running in conditions that are When you are a
:29:43. > :29:47.to running in conditions that are race strong and well in any
:29:48. > :29:54.condition. It is more mental a factor.
:29:55. > :29:58.The likes of Geoffrey Kamworor and Karoki are too strong to allow that
:29:59. > :30:01.to factor for them. The change of conditions will not make a
:30:02. > :30:06.difference. Where we have seen it make a difference in terms of
:30:07. > :30:12.closing the gap between the European athletes and the Kenyan and the
:30:13. > :30:18.Ethiopians is in World Cross Country, where it has been muddy and
:30:19. > :30:24.snowy and in the junior teams where the inexperience shows in those
:30:25. > :30:27.conditions. But the athletes in the senior races will be accustomed to
:30:28. > :30:32.travelling in all types of conditions.
:30:33. > :30:35.travelling in all types of Apologises for the technology and
:30:36. > :30:44.the timing. We have seen Alyson Dixon. Not so far behind the leader.
:30:45. > :30:54.Next was Charlotte Pardew, and then 30 seconds behind her was Spink and
:30:55. > :30:59.Rachel Felton. Rachel Felton. So we will try to bring you updates but we
:31:00. > :31:04.are having a few problems with receiving the times and the
:31:05. > :31:12.positions of the athletes further down the field. We will do our best.
:31:13. > :31:17.apologies for that, we are control of that element of the
:31:18. > :31:22.broadcast here, so the pictures of the front of the race, we can see
:31:23. > :31:25.what is happening further down, we tend to rely on getting the
:31:26. > :31:33.information, all of the athletes where chips, the Peruvian athlete
:31:34. > :31:38.now finding herself about 50 metres back from the group, so, yes, we
:31:39. > :31:38.normally get the split times, but we will do our best to bring them
:31:39. > :31:44.through to you as and when we will do our best to bring them
:31:45. > :31:52.them. That was the five mile marker that they just run through, so that
:31:53. > :31:59.last mile has picked up. She went through in 36.25, they will
:32:00. > :32:01.last mile has picked up. She went increase as they go through the
:32:02. > :32:05.sheltered area across the barrage. You can see that by how much the
:32:06. > :32:13.field is starting to string out, the gap growing behind. Down now to just
:32:14. > :32:16.field is starting to string out, the Kenyan and Ethiopians at the front,
:32:17. > :32:18.the Japanese girls have been the victim of the increase
:32:19. > :32:24.the Japanese girls have been the and are just dropping back down the
:32:25. > :32:27.road behind as this comes down to 18 battle now between Kenny and
:32:28. > :32:41.Ethiopia for the victory in the team race. -- down to 18 battle between
:32:42. > :32:51.Kenny and Ethiopia. Mary Wacera looks comfortable. She is wearing a
:32:52. > :32:57.different name on her vest. The Ethiopians looked like they are
:32:58. > :33:01.starting to work hard. When there are only three Ethiopians left, as
:33:02. > :33:13.they are at the moment, it becomes a bit more difficult for them to try
:33:14. > :33:19.to control things, although Yalew is making a move on the outside.
:33:20. > :33:24.Let's have a look now back at the start. About ten minutes before the
:33:25. > :33:28.start of the mass race and the elite men's race, and, for us, as we look
:33:29. > :33:31.down on Cardiff Castle, we know it is going to be a big, big day for a
:33:32. > :33:54.familiar face, Mo Farah. Gold again! Simply sensational! How
:33:55. > :33:59.are you feeling ahead of the world half of the? I'm excited to be back
:34:00. > :34:03.in Cardiff, hopefully tomorrow will be a great race, it will be a tough
:34:04. > :34:07.race but at the same time it will be exciting because you have got all
:34:08. > :34:13.the guys who will be competing in Rio here, working as a team, so it's
:34:14. > :34:17.important to dig in deep. At some point in the race it is going to get
:34:18. > :34:21.tough, it will get hard, but if I can have that crowd and the home
:34:22. > :34:27.support it will hopefully make a difference. Last week was the world
:34:28. > :34:31.indoor athletics Championships. Why was it important for you to choose
:34:32. > :34:36.this over being there, where you could have won another world title?
:34:37. > :34:42.For me, home is home, the UK is home for me, it is where I grew up, where
:34:43. > :34:45.I spent my childhood, it is my first home, and if I had a choice anywhere
:34:46. > :34:52.else I would choose here to compete, which is why I am competing here. I
:34:53. > :34:57.enjoyed supporting the GB team last weekend, it was important to cheer
:34:58. > :35:01.for my team-mates. Looking forward to afford real, what are your plans
:35:02. > :35:06.in between now and then? I'm quite excited about Rio, it would be nice
:35:07. > :35:10.to do the double again but I will take it one step at a time, do this
:35:11. > :35:15.race, compete, take a break and then 1st of June I will compete on the
:35:16. > :35:22.track and then come back in Birmingham, 5th of June, complete
:35:23. > :35:26.their, and then I think London. The focus is on the euro, working
:35:27. > :35:29.upwards, ticking a few boxes to where you are. It is important that
:35:30. > :35:35.you have done a good block of training and you race and Europe
:35:36. > :35:42.testing yourself. -- and you are testing yourself. Geoffrey Kamworor
:35:43. > :35:46.is a great athlete, he and Karoki will be up there with me. It was a
:35:47. > :35:56.close race in Beijing, but he will push and push all the way. But it is
:35:57. > :36:00.what I need, right? His best distance, he won the world cross
:36:01. > :36:05.country, so what tactical battle do you expect in Cardiff? It will be
:36:06. > :36:10.difficult, he is the favourite, he and Karoki are the favourites, which
:36:11. > :36:13.is nice, sometimes, when you go in a race as favourite you feel you have
:36:14. > :36:17.to win, but today is a little bit of pressure off so in a way I can just
:36:18. > :36:22.go out there and see what I can come away with. But at the same time, in
:36:23. > :36:31.my heart, of course I want to win, I would not be turning up if I didn't
:36:32. > :36:35.want to win. Talking to David McDaid, and there
:36:36. > :36:44.he is, right in the middle, staying warm. Mone leading the British team,
:36:45. > :36:49.hoping today is his day. He knows it will be tough, though, and more of
:36:50. > :36:55.that coming in a few minutes, he is about six or seven minutes away from
:36:56. > :37:03.the start of his race. Meanwhile, the crowds out in force here at a
:37:04. > :37:08.round 10k, an important part of the race because things have picked up,
:37:09. > :37:17.and the Ethiopians have been trying to set the pace, mix things up a
:37:18. > :37:20.little bit. Yalew in particular, just pushing things on. They have
:37:21. > :37:24.dropped a couple of their own team-mates but putting a little bit
:37:25. > :37:28.of pressure on the Kenyan quintet who are still all that, all five
:37:29. > :37:35.Kenyan is still very much to the fore. They, I'm sure, will keep
:37:36. > :37:41.picking up the pace and the group will get whittled down one by one.
:37:42. > :37:49.As we have a great view looking down now, get ready for the start of the
:37:50. > :37:52.mens rea is. -- the men's race. Mo Farah leading the British team, we
:37:53. > :37:58.will go through the rest of the teams for you shortly. In terms of
:37:59. > :38:03.team competitions, we are expecting Japan to do pretty well, but with no
:38:04. > :38:09.rider there, when you get a fast time with one of your runners, you
:38:10. > :38:17.never know. It will be difficult to get in amongst it, I would imagine,
:38:18. > :38:21.in terms of medals, but top five, top six placing for the British team
:38:22. > :38:28.would be a good result. The United States not as well represented as
:38:29. > :38:32.they could be here. Let's have a look at some of the
:38:33. > :38:39.main contenders, just to the left there I would say, perhaps the
:38:40. > :38:47.prerace favourite here, Adola. Geoffrey Kamworor, the world cross
:38:48. > :39:00.country champion, a huge talent on the roads. He knows how to win this
:39:01. > :39:05.title as well. 58.54 his personal best. The nominal athlete, he will
:39:06. > :39:14.test Mo Farah completely and utterly today. If you compare personal
:39:15. > :39:20.bests, half marathon times have to be on certified wits, that is Mo's
:39:21. > :39:25.official, though he has run faster in the Great North Run, that was his
:39:26. > :39:30.official best -- certified routes. They done correctly, you heard Mo
:39:31. > :39:33.Farah talking about him, it those guys two of the best Kenyan is
:39:34. > :39:39.around, the best around on the roads. I don't think Eritrea will be
:39:40. > :39:42.able to defend their title here at all. Then the rest of the British
:39:43. > :39:53.contingent in a second. Let's get the race under way. Big crowds at
:39:54. > :40:00.the start line, they don't have far to go until the finish but the
:40:01. > :40:02.athletes have got 13.1 miles to go. Oh, a fall at the start,
:40:03. > :40:12.Geoffrey Kamworor, one of the prerace favourites who fell right at
:40:13. > :40:15.the start there, and that... I hope he is OK, horrible way for him to
:40:16. > :40:18.start the defence of his title, and he is a long way back, because of
:40:19. > :40:22.course what happens then is people are running over the top of you, you
:40:23. > :40:27.cannot get on your feet, cannot get up, and he will have to try to find
:40:28. > :40:29.his way through an awful lot of athletes, so right at the start of
:40:30. > :40:33.his way through an awful lot of this world half than Mo Farah's
:40:34. > :40:38.chances perhaps improved because the energy can Worra is going to have to
:40:39. > :40:41.expend just to get back to the front -- Kamworor is going to have to
:40:42. > :40:46.expend as to get back to the front will be detrimental to his chances
:40:47. > :40:55.here. That is Karoki there, again with a different name on his best,
:40:56. > :40:59.Muchiri. But that was terrible, Paula. Let's have a look. This is
:41:00. > :41:03.not what you want to see at the start of the race, he slipped,
:41:04. > :41:07.athletes falling on top of him, on his back, you can see some of the
:41:08. > :41:11.guys around are trying to help him get up, begins and supper began,
:41:12. > :41:14.that it took a long, long time there before he was up and running, and
:41:15. > :41:19.you have to worry, the speed he went down, the 40 went down with, has he
:41:20. > :41:24.done himself any injury damage their? -- the force with which he
:41:25. > :41:36.went down. It will make it harder for him to make up the ground back
:41:37. > :41:43.to the lead group. Ayele has realised that Kamworor is not there,
:41:44. > :41:49.so he is trying to take advantage of it. It is a shame for the race as
:41:50. > :41:54.well, around the world people were looking forward to Kamworor against
:41:55. > :42:00.his team-mate, Karoki. But also against Mo Farah, the three of them
:42:01. > :42:10.rejoining the battle we saw on the track last year, here on the roads
:42:11. > :42:13.in Cardiff. Here we have Ayele stretching the lead group already,
:42:14. > :42:22.which is not what we saw in the women's race, so that will not help
:42:23. > :42:27.him either. And, well, Mo Farah looking around, it may well be
:42:28. > :42:30.dawning on him what has happened, he certainly knows Jeffrey pretty well,
:42:31. > :42:36.he will know he is not in that group, he will wonder why, perhaps
:42:37. > :42:40.but to win two together. I saw Mo looking around about 30, 40 metres
:42:41. > :42:44.after the start, he was aware something had happened and he may
:42:45. > :42:50.well get a message from the British contingent out there. But, for the
:42:51. > :42:54.time being... There he is, Kamworor. If he has got back to the start...
:42:55. > :43:03.There he is, it was definitely him who fell, and he... He lost his hat!
:43:04. > :43:03.Of course he lost his hat! It is incredible he
:43:04. > :43:06.Of course he lost his hat! It is quickly, but I suppose that is what
:43:07. > :43:11.you have to quickly, but I suppose that is what
:43:12. > :43:14.do not have as long, of course, but you have to get back as quickly as
:43:15. > :43:20.you can within reason, but expending as little energy as you can getting
:43:21. > :43:26.back. Definitely him who falls. His first stride down, he just flipped.
:43:27. > :43:29.I think somebody caught him. Caught him from behind there. Mo looking
:43:30. > :43:36.around there. Even if you are him from behind there. Mo looking
:43:37. > :43:38.you aware health who has gone down, the first ten, 20 metres, you are
:43:39. > :43:41.looking the first ten, 20 metres, you are
:43:42. > :43:46.who should be, and he will have quickly realised can Worra was not
:43:47. > :43:50.there, but to win two together and realised he had
:43:51. > :43:53.there, but to win two together and was not there. A little bit of a
:43:54. > :43:56.boost for mode to realise that it was Kamworor that has fallen, but a
:43:57. > :44:01.bit of a blow when Kamworor gets back to the pack that quickly and
:44:02. > :44:06.settled down again in front of Mo, because he will see that that, yes,
:44:07. > :44:11.it might have been him who has fallen but it does not seem to have
:44:12. > :44:14.affected his race that much. The key when you fall like that is to make
:44:15. > :44:18.it up as gradually and smoothly as possible so that you get back into
:44:19. > :44:21.contact of quickly as you can but you don't expend too much energy
:44:22. > :44:26.because you do, undoubtedly, when you fall like that, experienced a
:44:27. > :44:28.surge in adrenaline that can make you do rash things and run to quip,
:44:29. > :44:42.which don't want to do in the first mile of a half
:44:43. > :44:45.marathon, you want to expend your energy gradually and keep a lid on
:44:46. > :44:48.the levels of lactic acid in your body there and just be able to
:44:49. > :44:50.gradually pull back. What he benefited from, Kamworor, what his
:44:51. > :44:52.team-mates consciously trying to slow down the pace, so as much as
:44:53. > :44:54.Ayele was, unusually for an Ethiopian, trying to lead
:44:55. > :44:56.Ayele was, unusually for an in the opening stages and get it
:44:57. > :45:01.moving along, the other athletes behind very much ran almost in
:45:02. > :45:04.formation across the road, trying to keep the pack and the pace steady
:45:05. > :45:18.until Kamworor was able to work What a start. We couldn't have
:45:19. > :45:22.envisaged that. Whatever happens, it will be referred to the results. If
:45:23. > :45:28.Geoffrey Kamworor were to come away with a win, it would be a phenomenal
:45:29. > :45:35.performance from the Kenyan. So Mo Farah has settled down. After a
:45:36. > :45:41.little crazy, in all respects, first kilometre.
:45:42. > :45:45.The conditions are certainly deteriorating a little bit. But not
:45:46. > :45:51.too bad. Given everything we were told. I think what Cardiff was
:45:52. > :46:00.bracing itself for, so far, it is windy it is breezy and raining but
:46:01. > :46:06.it's not quite apocalyptic. So, Ayele moving to the side. His time
:46:07. > :46:11.in front may be up. This will be addressed. I know that Mo thought
:46:12. > :46:18.that Whitehalled who happen was that Kiptoo could be asked to take it out
:46:19. > :46:30.for Geoffrey Kamworor and Karaoke. It looks as though Kiptoo, well, he
:46:31. > :46:39.is tracking Ayele stride for side but maybe Kiptoo may be the one to
:46:40. > :46:44.head up front. Mo thought that they may sacrifice someone. But look how
:46:45. > :46:47.it has gathered. It only works if the others go with
:46:48. > :46:52.him. But not much point to push the pace
:46:53. > :46:57.and keeping moving at a decent pace, if you are not going to go with
:46:58. > :47:01.that. That is what we are seeing. The other runners are reluctant to
:47:02. > :47:07.go with the quicker pace in the early stages. I was finding that
:47:08. > :47:10.funny, the Ethiopian athlete trying to get away from the lead. It
:47:11. > :47:16.funny, the Ethiopian athlete trying the Kenyan athlete, usually the
:47:17. > :47:28.roles reverse, and the Ethiopians sit on the shoulders. And to the
:47:29. > :47:32.women's race, Gudeta in front there. It has been the Ethiopians pushing
:47:33. > :47:41.the pace and trying to hurt the Kenyans a little bit.
:47:42. > :47:45.They have picked up a little bit. It is still a pace
:47:46. > :47:50.They have picked up a little bit. It feeling is comfortable for most of
:47:51. > :47:58.them here. The second 5K is quicker than the first. The pace looks like
:47:59. > :48:05.it is being kept on. Gudeta maybe wanting to keep it on.
:48:06. > :48:16.But Mary Wacera is there. Ngugi is there. And Cynthia Limo is
:48:17. > :48:22.It is the next three or four miles. This is when the fatigue starts to
:48:23. > :48:28.begin to creep in. You can't run even at this pace, although it is
:48:29. > :48:29.well within the compass of most of the athletes but this is when you
:48:30. > :48:37.will know if it is your day or no. the athletes but this is when you
:48:38. > :48:40.If you are struggling, if this is comfortable, those thoughts will be
:48:41. > :48:47.going through the head of these athletes now.
:48:48. > :48:52.Back to the men's race. We can see somebody has decided that Kiptoo
:48:53. > :48:57.will not be the only one and Bedan Karoki Muchiri has taken on the job
:48:58. > :49:00.of working with Kiptoo. Straight away, Mo reacted to that. He
:49:01. > :49:07.of working with Kiptoo. Straight almost running on his own. It is not
:49:08. > :49:14.exactly no man's land. But he has recognised the danger here and moved
:49:15. > :49:21.to could've it. -- cover it. This is swift.
:49:22. > :49:27.This is quick. It is a world half marathon championship, with a great
:49:28. > :49:33.field but look at these two. Mo Farah is slotting back into the
:49:34. > :49:41.group, as you say, Paula but it is difficult for Mo. I don't think he
:49:42. > :49:48.is expected to win the race. If it was flat out, if he were to beat
:49:49. > :50:02.those two at the half marathon, they may as well all go home. Mo is
:50:03. > :50:08.keeping his on on Geoffrey Kamworor. The question is, how much did the
:50:09. > :50:14.fall and having to catch up, how much has that affected Geoffrey
:50:15. > :50:24.Kamworor's ability to go quicker? That is the question.
:50:25. > :50:28.The form guides coming from Kenya recently were that Karoki would be
:50:29. > :50:35.the favourite coming into the event. He has been racing a bit, that is
:50:36. > :50:45.the only down side to that. He raced recently. And did a double at 6,000
:50:46. > :50:52.feet of altitude, running a 1500m in 342 and a 5,000m in 1348. So he is
:50:53. > :50:58.in very good shape and recognises he is in that form right now. His best
:50:59. > :51:02.bet to be able to walk away with this is to make it hard from the
:51:03. > :51:07.start and take the race to Mo Farah. Now you can see the effect that
:51:08. > :51:10.effort and surge is putting in and is having on the field.
:51:11. > :51:23.So, Kenya well to the fore. is having on the field.
:51:24. > :51:33.If you are watching our programme, Can Seb co- Save Athletics? That was
:51:34. > :51:39.the programme on beforehand, I know we are happy to hear your comments.
:51:40. > :51:52.A comment has been passed on: Ten year bans. Paying back all earnings,
:51:53. > :51:53.prison time for drug-slying coaches. And make cheating properly
:51:54. > :52:00.punishable. Those are the messages And make cheating properly
:52:01. > :52:05.coming. Some of the penalties within athletics must sit in the overall
:52:06. > :52:12.picture of WADA and the drug-testing regime but life bans and longer
:52:13. > :52:17.bans, they need tougher penalties available and as you have said,
:52:18. > :52:22.Paula, this is where a lot of athletes earn a lot of money on the
:52:23. > :52:25.roads. They are not the household names, not the
:52:26. > :52:33.track stars don't earn a lot of money. The big money in our sport is
:52:34. > :52:38.in road running. Half marathons. 10Ks around the world. Many are
:52:39. > :52:40.earning a lot of money. Those that are caught should be paying some of
:52:41. > :52:46.that money back. Absolutely. I think that they should
:52:47. > :52:51.be paying all of it back. That is a point we were trying to reach out to
:52:52. > :52:56.race directors. To say, we cannot maybe legally get a lifetime ban in
:52:57. > :52:58.the sport but we can make them pay back the prize money. I believe it
:52:59. > :53:01.is an honour and a privilege back the prize money. I believe it
:53:02. > :53:06.part in the sport it is not a basic right. You should not be allowed
:53:07. > :53:10.back to the party until you have full paid back the money owed to
:53:11. > :53:15.other athletes. And another tweet. This one has come
:53:16. > :53:21.in from Marco. He says he is fighting a losing battle. He is
:53:22. > :53:27.referring to Seb. He says that the sport is in denial.
:53:28. > :53:31.I don't think it is. I think that Seb has been very well aware of the
:53:32. > :53:36.issues. It is a very wide-ranging point to
:53:37. > :53:42.make that the sport is in denial. I think that huge parts of our sport
:53:43. > :53:46.really want to make big changes. Seb is well aware. The question is
:53:47. > :53:51.towards the end of that programme, is that we make the point that the
:53:52. > :53:58.sport has many different facets and not everyone agrees with the way
:53:59. > :54:01.forward. He is coming up at some point transcendence within the
:54:02. > :54:06.sport. There are opinions about how to go forward. He somehow has to
:54:07. > :54:09.pull it under one umbrella and move quickly.
:54:10. > :54:14.I agree. I don't think that the sport is in denial. The fact we are
:54:15. > :54:19.facing up to the problems, and as many people are being caught and
:54:20. > :54:26.action is taken, as in Russia and other countries in the future. If it
:54:27. > :54:30.is faced up to. If you are fighting a losing battle, as so many of us in
:54:31. > :54:36.athletics are, it is never a losing battle. A losing battle is
:54:37. > :54:40.athletics are, it is never a losing back and not making the situation
:54:41. > :54:44.better. That is not the case in athletics now.
:54:45. > :54:48.And those are the men there. In the women the pace was very much picked
:54:49. > :55:00.up. 48. 14 through 15 kilometres.
:55:01. > :55:04.The news on the Brits through... At the previous checkpoint, Alyson
:55:05. > :55:07.Dixon, the first of the British contingent going through 10K in 33.
:55:08. > :55:13.36. In terms of contingent going through 10K in 33.
:55:14. > :55:18.competition, Japan are doing well. They have had their three cop
:55:19. > :55:21.runners inside of the top 14. So up-to-date with that quickly.
:55:22. > :55:25.runners inside of the top 14. So America are not so far behind them.
:55:26. > :55:28.That maybe interesting for the battle for the Bronze Medal
:55:29. > :55:33.position. It is up and down with the men's race. They are approaching a
:55:34. > :55:37.water station. A little bit of a rise here.
:55:38. > :55:40.water station. A little bit of a Look at car OK yes. They are not
:55:41. > :55:51.hanging around here. This is hard and brutal. And look at the rain. --
:55:52. > :56:01.Karoki. A very good pace set at the men's
:56:02. > :56:05.race, 14: 10. If Geoffrey Kamworor can run 59 minutes after falling
:56:06. > :56:12.down at the start. He is a very, very good athlete. And the rest of
:56:13. > :56:17.the British contingent in the men's race, there are the likes of Ryan
:56:18. > :56:25.McLeod and Callum Hawkins with their eye on Olympic selection.
:56:26. > :56:29.And the local buy, Dewi Griffiths. Running strongly, representing the
:56:30. > :56:35.Welsh tonne ngency. I'm sure he will be getting a lot of support as he
:56:36. > :56:40.races today. And the women's group. Kenya and
:56:41. > :56:45.Ethiopia well to the fore. Alyson Dixon dropping back a little. She
:56:46. > :56:52.did go off hard. 2. 5 minutes behind the lairds.
:56:53. > :56:57.Ali will have thoughts very much on London. As we start to see this
:56:58. > :57:06.group whittle down one by one. We said it would happen as the pace has
:57:07. > :57:12.been picking up all of the time. Five athletes, the three best of the
:57:13. > :57:19.Kenyans for my money are there. Two of the best of the Ethiopians.
:57:20. > :57:24.It will not be a clean sweep. They had the sweep in Copenhagen but
:57:25. > :57:31.certainly, they will want to be. I think it will be fast. I caught a
:57:32. > :57:35.glimpse of the 10-mile marker about 51. 5 minute mark. That is a good
:57:36. > :57:42.pace. I would say that is a sub-68
:57:43. > :57:45.minutes. Maybe pushing down towards a 66-minute territory. That is
:57:46. > :57:50.moving fast. You can see it by the damage that is
:57:51. > :57:59.done further down the field, looking down the road.
:58:00. > :58:02.Behind them I can't see athletes within sight of the leaders in the
:58:03. > :58:11.race. Certainly they look comfortable. Look at how comfortable
:58:12. > :58:19.Mary Wacera is looking with Ngugi too. A definite favourite today.
:58:20. > :58:24.And the men at four miles. The pace maintained there. Look how
:58:25. > :58:30.hard Mo Farah is working. The hat is off. He is struggling to stay with
:58:31. > :58:35.the quick pace. Look at how many men are going with it. If Mo
:58:36. > :58:40.concentrates, he will pick some off. If he ends up in not the top five or
:58:41. > :58:46.six, he would be pretty disappointed. I'm not sure even Mo,
:58:47. > :58:52.he said before, he goes into a race wanting to win. Then working out a
:58:53. > :58:56.good result here. In a hard-run race, he knows that Geoffrey
:58:57. > :59:02.Kamworor is good, that Karoki is good. But there are other athletes
:59:03. > :59:08.he expects to beat. Yes. But it is early stages yet. Mo
:59:09. > :59:15.is good at judging his pace. Not being afraid to back off if he can
:59:16. > :59:17.close stronger. What he is doing is expending as little energy as
:59:18. > :59:31.possible while maintaining contact with the lead group. To sit back a
:59:32. > :59:36.little bit. Having spent time in. Kenya, there is a training session
:59:37. > :59:39.where we have seen Karoki go to the front to push the pace hard,
:59:40. > :59:44.stringing out the field and then dropping back the field. Is that him
:59:45. > :59:50.going to the front once more again? That is a very, very hard way to
:59:51. > :59:53.run, a euroing of the pace. When we spoke about Geoffrey
:59:54. > :59:56.Kamworor falling, he would not want to do a euroing pace, it saps the
:59:57. > :00:03.legs a little more. It to do a euroing pace, it saps the
:00:04. > :00:06.sting out of the finishing speed. So Mo is doing a better job
:00:07. > :00:11.sting out of the finishing speed. So his pace gradual. He will be trying
:00:12. > :00:16.not to panic about the fact that there are so many guys up ahead of
:00:17. > :00:22.him on the road. What helps is as they drop off that
:00:23. > :00:29.group, one by one, they will inevitably do, some are running too
:00:30. > :00:32.quick. Then, having people to pick off helps.
:00:33. > :00:34.The women's race looks to have slowed here.
:00:35. > :00:45.It is backing off the hard pace. That five kilometre section they
:00:46. > :00:46.went through, that is low 66 running, no wonder they
:00:47. > :00:53.went through, that is low 66 little bit, so back to the
:00:54. > :01:05.Ethiopians with Yalew, we have got Mary Wacera on the left there.
:01:06. > :01:09.Cynthia Limo, the young talent in the middle watching the Ethiopians,
:01:10. > :01:13.letting them do the work to set the pace and waiting for the moment, it
:01:14. > :01:18.has got to happen fairly soon, someone will have to break this up.
:01:19. > :01:22.I think they will all have come into this with their race plans, you saw
:01:23. > :01:32.Mary Wacera there, a glance over her shoulder, maybe checking how far
:01:33. > :01:38.back she was, but more likely just checking the distance back to the
:01:39. > :01:42.next athlete, because they will want to pick up the next point, they will
:01:43. > :01:45.not want the athletes behind to be able to get back in touch with the
:01:46. > :01:47.leading group. They are being slowed down by the lead vehicle, that is
:01:48. > :01:51.not what you want to see. The down by the lead vehicle, that is
:01:52. > :01:55.outriders and lead vehicle may be getting caught up with the crowds,
:01:56. > :01:59.the athlete almost went into the back of them there. The road now
:02:00. > :02:01.clear ahead of them, and clear in the men's race, Mo Farah at the
:02:02. > :02:16.back. He looks pretty relaxed, in his face, which is good.
:02:17. > :02:19.As you said, Paula, he has huge experience in terms of getting his
:02:20. > :02:21.pace right, you will know what he is capable of from his training,
:02:22. > :02:24.undergoing, as ever, preparing in Oregon. He was outlining in the
:02:25. > :02:31.interview, if you were with us earlier, that he knows his track
:02:32. > :02:34.plans, he will be in Birmingham at the Diamond league, and then of
:02:35. > :02:38.course he will be back in London for the Diamond league in his last big
:02:39. > :02:42.race before he heads off to reopen as well, so the preparation already
:02:43. > :02:53.there, the plan is already there, and this part of his Rio plan to get
:02:54. > :03:00.himself in the right shape. The pathos collapse -- the pace has
:03:01. > :03:06.perhaps slowed a little at the front again. They are saying, come on, we
:03:07. > :03:12.have got to keep this going, but it is what Mo was expecting. You can
:03:13. > :03:16.see Karoki taking a look around, seeing how many of the runners are
:03:17. > :03:25.there, how many have been damaged by the surge. It is speed play,
:03:26. > :03:29.injection of pace running faster, then backing off slightly before
:03:30. > :03:34.surging again. A yo-yoing of the pace which does damage but is also
:03:35. > :03:42.an effective training tool, one that they use in the dirt roads to very,
:03:43. > :03:48.very good effect. The rest of the British men through 5k, three more
:03:49. > :03:51.to the fore, Griffiths 27th, McLeod 37th, Hinds 45th. Again, we will
:03:52. > :03:57.update you as and when we get them. 37th, Hinds 45th. Again, we will
:03:58. > :04:00.In the women's race, through 15 37th, Hinds 45th. Again, we will
:04:01. > :04:10.we saw Aly Dixon, behind her Charlotte Purdue was 40th.
:04:11. > :04:16.Approaching the hour mark, approaching the part of the race
:04:17. > :04:21.where, if you want to win it, do you wait and see if you can outkicked
:04:22. > :04:26.the others? Mary Wacera might be the favourite but more often than not we
:04:27. > :04:30.go back to the old adage that a good Ethiopian always outkicked a good
:04:31. > :04:38.Kenyan. I'm not sure that is always the case. And acknowledgement of
:04:39. > :04:41.their of the click of the heels from Peres, very kindly pawning them --
:04:42. > :04:56.their of the click of the heels from pointing out that there was a car
:04:57. > :05:04.parked! They go alongside Roath Park lake. The rain seems to have abated
:05:05. > :05:08.somewhat, thank goodness. When they get to the top of the road they will
:05:09. > :05:11.turn and head back, there could be a breeze in their face over the last
:05:12. > :05:15.few kilometres, the last two miles. They turned just before the 11 mile
:05:16. > :05:19.point, actually they must have turned already judging by the clock.
:05:20. > :05:24.I'm trying to work out, I can still see the water on the left-hand side
:05:25. > :05:28.so I think they have to turn around and will be coming back down. Yes,
:05:29. > :05:33.they are heading back down. They will have turned at 11 miles and
:05:34. > :05:37.will be running back into the wind. The information from out on the
:05:38. > :05:41.course is that the worst of the wind is between five and six miles, then
:05:42. > :05:44.it is at their backs for a good stretch, which has been evidenced by
:05:45. > :05:49.the speed that the women were able to run at in that section, just a
:05:50. > :05:54.bit in their faces in the closing couple of miles. All
:05:55. > :06:00.bit in their faces in the closing pace picks up as the first real
:06:01. > :06:03.effort here, coming from the youngster who is having a great race
:06:04. > :06:06.here and have had youngster who is having a great race
:06:07. > :06:11.preparations leading into these championships.
:06:12. > :06:16.preparations leading into these that shortly. Back in the men's
:06:17. > :06:23.race, that group is getting smaller and smaller all the time.
:06:24. > :06:35.it hurts! It is a big part of a lot of athletess preparations. Look at
:06:36. > :06:37.that, the three Kenyan is forging on, putting big gaps between
:06:38. > :06:41.themselves. They will on, putting big gaps between
:06:42. > :06:45.this, they will think, this is working, this is giving us a big gap
:06:46. > :06:49.over working, this is giving us a big gap
:06:50. > :07:01.picking off those who drop off the pace, there is a group of three, he
:07:02. > :07:11.has to get onto the back of that. They are passing through six miles,
:07:12. > :07:25.not far from the ten Kate point. -- the 10k point. I am expecting them
:07:26. > :07:31.to be about 28 point 15, maybe 28.20, maintaining the pace they set
:07:32. > :07:34.through the 5k. Yes, a bit of confusion there with Karoki deciding
:07:35. > :07:40.at the last moment to get his drinks but Bob. I did see Pam Worra has got
:07:41. > :07:45.his, so maybe they will share that and he won't have to do without it
:07:46. > :07:48.-- I did see Kamworor has got his. He should have maybe realised when
:07:49. > :07:51.he saw the flags and tables lined up that he needed to think
:07:52. > :07:53.he saw the flags and tables lined up picking up his bottle. Back to the
:07:54. > :07:58.women's race, Kenyan tactics pushing the pace, it has paid off and it
:07:59. > :08:05.looks like a Kenyan one, two, three in this race. Unusually it is Mary
:08:06. > :08:07.looks like a Kenyan one, two, three Wacera who is struggling to hold on,
:08:08. > :08:11.though she still looks comfortable, but looking good in her leg
:08:12. > :08:21.turnover, legged pick-up at this stage. The look back that she will
:08:22. > :08:23.not be going to the girls in front but is checking the danger of where
:08:24. > :08:37.the competition for the bronze medal may come from.
:08:38. > :08:45.I must say, I had written in my note about the youngster in front,
:08:46. > :08:57.possible surprise winner. She ran fast, but Cynthia Limo is the
:08:58. > :09:01.fastest, and she still has her to deal with here. She does not have to
:09:02. > :09:10.worry about Mary one Sarah, she looks like she will have two keep
:09:11. > :09:14.working hard for the medal and leave her two team-mate out in front of
:09:15. > :09:25.her. Who of these two will be the quicker? 15.53, she has no track
:09:26. > :09:36.pedigree. Cynthia Limo, not much either. The two of them not really
:09:37. > :09:43.tested. But Limo has one big races, but Jepchirchir looks strong. She
:09:44. > :09:48.does, but with the contest in -- contrast in style at the runners,
:09:49. > :09:56.Jepchirchir rocking side to side and perhaps wasting a little bit of
:09:57. > :10:00.energy there. Cynthia Limo is very metronomic, very little arm
:10:01. > :10:02.movements to waste energy there. Certainly the more experienced
:10:03. > :10:06.racing over the half marathon distance but it does not always come
:10:07. > :10:10.down to experience, it comes down to who wants the victory more and who
:10:11. > :10:17.has got that little bit more energy left in the legs as we get to the
:10:18. > :10:22.closing stages. And the closing stages will determine the gold medal
:10:23. > :10:27.here, Kenyan undoubtedly looking stages will determine the gold medal
:10:28. > :10:32.a one, two, three, and heading that way as long as Mary Wacera does not
:10:33. > :10:39.completely fall apart in the closing kilometre or so. But the front two,
:10:40. > :10:44.who is going to win this? 22-year-old, rock 'n' roll style,
:10:45. > :10:49.but looks strong from the waist down, a strong stride, but on the
:10:50. > :10:57.other side Cynthia Limo, who knows she has a fast time, possibly
:10:58. > :11:01.hinting about a sprint finish, pushing one and all of a sudden two,
:11:02. > :11:06.three metre gap which looks like it might extend. Yes, that was a quick
:11:07. > :11:11.opening of that gap, it is still a gap that could close, but certainly
:11:12. > :11:14.it looked a little bit like maybe the elder team-mates made a bit of a
:11:15. > :11:19.move, she does not want to leave it to come down to a sprint finish, she
:11:20. > :11:23.may be fears the finish after Jechirchir, having said that, Paul's
:11:24. > :11:27.alongside her. They are coming across a small crest, I would not
:11:28. > :11:32.call it a big hill, but it will enable Limo to eke out a little bit
:11:33. > :11:37.of a lead, which was quickly made up there. Jechirchir decided, no, I am
:11:38. > :11:40.not going to give up, used to have a battle on your hands for the
:11:41. > :11:46.victory. Amazing how the confidence can shift from one to the other,
:11:47. > :11:51.Limo gets a few meters and thinks, I have got this, and suddenly the lead
:11:52. > :11:56.disappears and Jechirchir says, I can win this. But the two of them in
:11:57. > :12:00.the closing stages, it will come down to a sprint finish, Jechirchir,
:12:01. > :12:05.22 years old, Limo, the sixth fastest marathon runner of all time
:12:06. > :12:10.suddenly finding the sprint of the youngster, looking like it is a
:12:11. > :12:19.winning one, opening to five, six, seven... Ten metres, look at her go!
:12:20. > :12:23.Peris Jechirchir, this could be a new name, she said she wants to go
:12:24. > :12:28.to Rio, but for the time being she will be able to celebrate a
:12:29. > :12:32.brilliant win on the streets of Cardiff, Peris Jechirchir of Kenny
:12:33. > :12:37.wins the world half and, QuickTime, as well. Cynthia Limo take the
:12:38. > :12:43.silver, and it will be just about a Kenyan 123. But, goodness me, Peris
:12:44. > :12:48.Jechirchir, look how surprised she is as we see the prerace favourite,
:12:49. > :12:55.Mary one Sarah coming in for the bronze medal. -- Mary Wacera. She
:12:56. > :12:59.could not hang on for the last two kilometres, but still a pretty
:13:00. > :13:06.QuickTime, inside 68 minutes on a difficult day out there, but Kenyan
:13:07. > :13:18.dominant one more. We wondered, didn't we, the effort, Paula, Limo
:13:19. > :13:22.perhaps felt and sensed this youngster was going well, made the
:13:23. > :13:28.effort with about 800 to go, and she was closed down, but what a finish
:13:29. > :13:31.from Peris Jechirchir. Yes, I think what happened was that Limo showed
:13:32. > :13:35.her fear by making the move, try to get away, she showed she was
:13:36. > :13:40.frightened of Chris Reid, who was able to the real her back in and get
:13:41. > :13:46.past her. -- frightened off Peris Jechirchir. And also I think
:13:47. > :13:50.Jechirchir was looking at her watch to judge how far she had to go, and
:13:51. > :13:54.it was only when somebody shouted how far she had to go that she
:13:55. > :14:01.launched that finish and moved away pretty easily from Limo for the
:14:02. > :14:05.victim. -- for the victory. There is Mo Farah, the leaders I would
:14:06. > :14:10.estimate about 100 metres ahead of him at this point, maybe a tad less
:14:11. > :14:17.than that, certainly nine, ten seconds at the very least. It is not
:14:18. > :14:21.a sort of distance, depending on the athletes, that you can think, that
:14:22. > :14:28.race is over, but when it contains Kamworor and Karoki and a couple of
:14:29. > :14:32.the good Ethiopians in there as well, then you know that it is going
:14:33. > :14:34.to be a tough day for Mo, but he will be hoping that one or two of
:14:35. > :14:38.these have overcooked it a bit, not will be hoping that one or two of
:14:39. > :14:48.those two, I don't think, but when they went through 10k, 27.59, you
:14:49. > :14:54.would not be disappointed if you were running that on the track,
:14:55. > :14:59.27.59 means the second 5k was very quick indeed, inside 14 minutes. And
:15:00. > :15:04.that is fast. This is very fast running. I think if we looked down,
:15:05. > :15:09.I'm not even sure what Mo's personal best is good that on the road, he
:15:10. > :15:14.has not raced it best is good that on the road, he
:15:15. > :15:18.guess it is fairly close to it. He is keeping relaxed, definitely not
:15:19. > :15:22.out of this yet, don't underestimate Mo Farah and how well he can stay
:15:23. > :15:26.focused on what he's doing, on his race in the middle stages, and just
:15:27. > :15:32.work gradually away, moving closer and closer to this group if he can,
:15:33. > :15:38.but these are two quality athletes, Kamworor and Karoki, with Tola as
:15:39. > :15:43.well, but Kamworor and colicky have been able to work together and take
:15:44. > :15:52.on the surge is one at a time -- Kamworor and callow key. It is
:15:53. > :15:55.interesting, because all of these guys, including Mo Farah, are
:15:56. > :16:02.running quicker than anyone would have expected, Mo has gone through
:16:03. > :16:02.running quicker than anyone would 28.04 on 10k on the roads in a
:16:03. > :16:05.running quicker than anyone would marathon, and, for him as well, this
:16:06. > :16:08.running quicker than anyone would is a race where he is going to be
:16:09. > :16:10.stepping a bit into unknown territory for himself, because
:16:11. > :16:16.stepping a bit into unknown maintains that pace he is well on,
:16:17. > :16:20.stepping a bit into unknown personal best. But it will hurt now,
:16:21. > :16:26.it will be a test of his endurance, can he maintain this case, can he
:16:27. > :16:27.get under 59 minutes, or close to 59 minutes, because that is the pace he
:16:28. > :16:37.has set out at. Mo Farah does hold the European
:16:38. > :16:44.record over the half marathon distance from Lisbon. Although he
:16:45. > :16:49.has run quicker on the South Shields Great North Run course. But he has
:16:50. > :16:51.not found himself to this point in a really fast from the start half
:16:52. > :16:56.marathon but he has today. He could really fast from the start half
:16:57. > :17:07.walk away from the race not getting a medal but having improved
:17:08. > :17:10.Record. So that is what is going on at the
:17:11. > :17:28.front. A little further back are the three
:17:29. > :17:35.British racers. In terms of the first group, the
:17:36. > :17:41.Kenyans and Ethiopians in the fore. And the Eritreans hoping to stayed
:17:42. > :17:51.on the medal roast ram. Information in from the statistician
:17:52. > :17:56.in Cardiff, is that Mo's 10K P B is 27.4. So not that far outside of it.
:17:57. > :18:03.in Cardiff, is that Mo's 10K P B is So a very quick pace being set on
:18:04. > :18:08.the streets of Cardiff. In spite of the streets of Cardiff. In spite of
:18:09. > :18:13.settled somewhat. The wind is not quite as bad. Within
:18:14. > :18:21.the streets and around the societalered
:18:22. > :18:27.bad. Fast, fast running here. These two
:18:28. > :18:32.guys at the front with Tamirat Tola trying to hang on. Two of the best
:18:33. > :18:38.distance runners in the world. And they will have their observe
:18:39. > :18:44.head-to-head. They have raced each other in the last 18 months.
:18:45. > :18:49.Geoffrey Kamworor has won five races recently.
:18:50. > :18:54.They know each other well. And Karoki has never lost a half
:18:55. > :18:58.marathon. He is four for four wins over 2014, 2015. So that is
:18:59. > :19:02.obviously a record that he isn't going to want to lose.
:19:03. > :19:04.He has that experience. He has maybe the knack for judging
:19:05. > :19:14.things right to get the victory. He has maybe the knack for judging
:19:15. > :19:19.If I understand his preparations correctly, he is intending to run
:19:20. > :19:23.the London Marathon as well. So a great indication of what
:19:24. > :19:28.happens what is to come in London this year if we get a good day.
:19:29. > :19:32.So two at the front for Kenya. They are pushing it on. Trying to
:19:33. > :19:40.run Tamirat Tola out of it if they can.
:19:41. > :19:49.Tamirat Tola himself is a trois marathon runner, he ran in Dubai.
:19:50. > :20:01.He is with those two at the moment. Then a little gap.
:20:02. > :20:10.Looking behind. Tamirat Tola, looking behind.
:20:11. > :20:18.Think these two at the front obviously feeling things a little
:20:19. > :20:27.bit. We keep coming back to the fact, if you have joined us
:20:28. > :20:32.recently, the runner at the front, Geoffrey Kamworor, he fell at the
:20:33. > :20:37.start. He had to pick himself up and somehow within a mile got into the
:20:38. > :20:42.lead group. For me, Paula, he looks like he is working hard. He has that
:20:43. > :20:48.grimace on his face. Even without falling this would be hard work. But
:20:49. > :20:56.he fell, and the first mile was the equivalent of 4. 15. He would have
:20:57. > :21:01.lost 10 to 15 seconds. You start a race with a 4. 15, you have to pay
:21:02. > :21:07.for it surely? You have to. I would have liked to have had a go-pro to
:21:08. > :21:11.see how he managed to make it up as fast as he did. He caught us by
:21:12. > :21:15.surprise. If you were around the starting mile area, tell us how he
:21:16. > :21:19.managed to make that gap up as quickly as he did. But without a
:21:20. > :21:26.doubt it has to hurt. As does racing at this pace. But he is pushing this
:21:27. > :21:31.on. A little while ago, they spread out across the road. Karoki was
:21:32. > :21:34.right across the road looking to Geoffrey Kamworor for guidance. They
:21:35. > :21:38.will have discussed the tactics before the race. There will be a
:21:39. > :21:45.point that they reach, where it will be every man for himself, trying to
:21:46. > :21:53.win the victory. But there, 13.41. It is the wind behind them. The
:21:54. > :21:59.women did run a fast 5K split. I would guess that the wind has picked
:22:00. > :22:03.up. But that is a very fast middle section of the race. No wonder that
:22:04. > :22:08.Tamirat Tola has been able to stay with this. The gaps going back to Mo
:22:09. > :22:15.Farah are growing. Paula, I hesitate to use the word
:22:16. > :22:21.world best but these guys are operating quicker than ever.
:22:22. > :22:25.Mo Farah is behind them but he has just broken the 15 kilometre record
:22:26. > :22:30.on the road. If he doesn't know he was going fast, I don't think he
:22:31. > :22:38.know what is the 15 K record is but he has just broken it, I am sure. He
:22:39. > :22:45.is not to have expected that. 42. 39 was the previous best. He is well in
:22:46. > :22:53.the low end of 42. It is coming up. 42. 03 officially. That is through
:22:54. > :22:59.15 kilometres. He knocked 20 seconds off it.
:23:00. > :23:03.Oh, Paula. If these guy, all of them, include Mo don't slow down, I
:23:04. > :23:08.will be surprised. This is hard for Mo Farah. It is a tough, tough race
:23:09. > :23:13.already. But he is running faster than he has ever done on the roads.
:23:14. > :23:18.That must give him confidence. It is a long time since I have seen
:23:19. > :23:23.Mo Farah hurting that much in a race. Probably back to the marathon
:23:24. > :23:27.debut in London. Hurting in the middle of the race and pushing on.
:23:28. > :23:33.But the pace he is running at, no wonder. You hope he has not been
:23:34. > :23:38.able to look at the 5 kilometre split to get that information. He
:23:39. > :23:45.will have seen the 15 kilometre. But had he seen that the guys have put
:23:46. > :23:50.in a 5 kilometre split at that pace that must do damage. Even though he
:23:51. > :23:58.is keeping that gap. It is about 100m. 22 seconds is not a far off.
:23:59. > :24:04.It is not growing significantly. Mo will be able to start moving back
:24:05. > :24:15.if he can keep concentration and not fatiguing too much.
:24:16. > :24:18.The great Eritrean, Zersenay Tadese, he is not here but
:24:19. > :24:32.The great Eritrean, Zersenay Tadese, fastest world marathon.
:24:33. > :24:34.If they are to run here and continue at this pace, they are on that
:24:35. > :24:39.record themselves. And Mo Farah at this pace, they are on that
:24:40. > :24:46.himself, setting records on the road in Cardiff. He may slow down but
:24:47. > :24:51.this has ban phenomenal from the man on the right, Geoffrey Kamworor.
:24:52. > :24:59.This is what he expected. Ten miles! Well we may not get a
:25:00. > :25:05.split. But that is phenomenal. That is, in a half marathon, you would
:25:06. > :25:07.win ten mile road races anywhere in the world with those